Alexander Albrecht

Alexander Albrecht (3 November 1788-15 August 1828) was a general in the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Alexander Albrecht was born in 1788 to a Saint Petersburg noble family, and he entered the Imperial Russian Army in 1803 as a cavalryman. In 1805, while commanding a squad at the Battle of Austerlitz, he received head and arm wounds from a French cavalryman's saber. In December 1809, he was promoted to Captain, and he became a colonel in 1811. In 1812, he commanded a cavalry regiment, fighting at Polotsk. He commanded a dragoon squadron during the War of the Sixth Coalition in 1813, being wounded in the right side at the Battle of Bautzen. In 1814, after defeating the French at the Battle of Fere-Champenoise, he was promoted to Major-General, and he became commander of the Guards Cavalry in Poland in 1823. He died from the plague in 1828.